Healthy snacks including veggies and cheese can help take the edge off of kids’ between-meal hunger pangs, and may help put a dent in rates of childhood obesity. In a new study, children who were given cheese and vegetables as a snack ate 72% fewer calories than children who snacked on potato chips, and this [...]

Preparing your baby’s nursery? Here’s a list of the most useful, yet overlooked items you may want to get your hands on.

Happy holidays! Our gift to you: A list of awesome gifts for new moms, babies, and toddlers–at just the right price.

PORT ELIZABETH, N.J. – Today, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chairman Inez Tenenbaum and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Deputy Commissioner David Aguilar announced at Port Elizabeth, N.J. that more than 2 million units of dangerous or violative toys and children’s products were seized in 2012 and were prevented from reaching the hands [...]

Time-outs are a popular technique for behavior modification. But do they really work? Here’s our expert advice for making them effective.

Sourcebooks has developed an app that will create customized picture books on the iPad. The Put Me in the Story book platform, which has a patent pending, personalizes interactive picture books for children by allowing consumers to insert a child’s name and photographed image into the app, thus fully integrating the child into the story [...]

Afraid to blow your budget this year? Here are top tips to avoid seasonal spending traps and shop smart during the holidays.

On Thursday, millions will tune in via live streams, television or in person to Macy’s 2012 Thanksgiving Day Parade for its 86th annual celebration. Thousands will flood the streets of New York City to see the parade with its marching bands, performers, celebrities, giant helium balloons and ornate floats. The 86th annual parade is a yearly [...]

From a press release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with KidCo Inc., of Libertyville, IL, is announcing the voluntary recall today of about 220,000 PeaPod and PeaPod Plus Travel Beds. Infants and young children can roll off the edge of the inflatable air mattress, become entrapped between the [...]